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newsThe resurrection of GOOSEE Diagrammer
Back in 1999, I wrote a book, titled "Flow design for embedded
systems", published in the USA by R&D Books. It describes a
diagramming technique that I invented, for designing code, prior to
actual coding. There was a floppy disk attached inside the back cover,
with a Windows 32-bit application called "GOOFEE Diagrammer".
The book is out of print, however, used copies are available, for example at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Design-Embedded-Systems-Object-Oriented/dp/087930555X
I received an email from Scott M., asking if I have the companion
disk. Scott collects old books, and he has two copies of my book,
without the floppy disk. I replied that around 2009, when I lived near
the small town of Perenjori in Western Australia, my house was burgled,
and my 4TB external backup drive was stolen, which had a lot of that old
stuff in it. But, I told him that I would look and see if the companion
disk is archived somewhere else, such as in a CD/DVD.
I have an old computer, with Cyrix 5x86 CPU, Zip-drive, and 20GB IDE
hard drive, that was my main workhorse in 1999. I got rid of most of my
old computers when left Perenjori, however hung onto that one. I did
take a few things out of it at some time, so it no longer works. So,
need to be able to access that old IDE drive, and I even found an old
100MB Zip disk, that I think has GOOFEE development on it.
So I bought one of these, for AU$28:
...the photo shows it plugged into my Zip drive. Note, it has a IDE
power plug as well. On the right is the cable to the mains power
adapter, and centre cable is the USB3 cable to the PC.
Unfortunately, my 100MB Zip disk doesn't work, Inserts OK, whirring sounds, but nothing more. The 20GB IDE HD works fine.
Yes, I found the companion disk, but also found the development files
for "GOOSEE Diagrammer". GOOFEE is an acronym for "Graphical Object
Orientation For Embedded Engineering". It is a GUI tool for designing a
program, however, I realised that it also had the potential of also
generating the code, as C code -- hence GOOSEE Diagrammer was born.
GOOSEE is an ancronym for "Graphical Object Oriented Software
Engineering Environment".
GOOFEE Diagrammer got mixed reviews. One guy thought that it was very
useful for code design where he worked, and suggested an alternative
acronym "Graphical Obfuscation Operation For Eternal Employment"!
Anyway, the C code generation part of it (introduced with GOOSEE
Diagammer) never got publicly released. I lost interest, as I had moved
onto "EVE"
EVE
"EVE" is an acronym for "Embedded Vector Editor", a general-purpose
vector drawing application. See here (source code also available):
https://bkhome.org/archive/eve/
https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/evemanual/evemanual.htm
https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/evemanual/evewemanual.htm
GOOSEE Diagrammer
This extension to GOOFEE Diagrammer, with generation of C code, never
got released. I think that it reached version 1.4beta1, however, I can
only find version 1.3 on my old 20GB IDE hard drive. I even installed
'testdisk' via the PPM, a file recovery tool, to no avail.
'goosee.exe' is a Win32 application, and still works in Windows 10.
What I found has now been uploaded. Here is an introduction:
https://bkhome.org/archive/goofee/goosee/
Example from above link:
User manual:
https://bkhome.org/archive/goofee/goosee_manual/manual.htm
Tarballs are available:
https://bkhome.org/archive/goofee/goofee_companion_disk.tar.gz
https://bkhome.org/archive/goofee/goosee.tar.gz
https://bkhome.org/archive/goofee/goosee_manual.tar.gz
https://bkhome.org/archive/goofee/goosee_dev.tar.gz
...the last one is the source code. GOOFEE and GOOSEE Diagrammer are
written in assembly language, and require MASM, Microsoft's assembler,
to compile. Which is free:
https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/x86/winmasm.zip
Useful links here:
https://bkhome.org/archive/goosee/x86/
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